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Jack Turner is an average 17-year-old Year 12 student with a particular bent for maths. He’s going to uni, there’s no doubt about that, but now he might go straight to uni instead of taking a year off. Jack, like ...

Victoria is well placed to be the only state to offer universal entitlement to postsecondary education, Jacinta Allan, state Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation, told a seminar last week. But partnerships between governments, universities and training providers will be ...

Australia moving up the innovation league Australia has improved one place to 20 in the second Economist Intelligence Unit innovation index. The survey weights countries according to direct innovation inputs such as R&D and broadband penetration, as well as other ...

South Australia comes away empty handed South Australia’s universities and TAFEs came away from the second round of the EIF with not one cent to rub together. Victoria, on the other hand, appears to have got the biggest percentage of ...

Universities continue to battle it out for a market share, writes Joseph Gora. In an interview with The Age, famed biographer and scourge of bloated rhetoric Don Watson noted that an ugly “business model” had percolated into almost every aspect of ...

Does the basic qualification for a VET trainer provide the foundation for development as a professional teacher, asks John Mitchell. There is continuing debate in the VET sector about the value of the minimum qualification required for a trainer and ...

Kevin Rudd’s compact with Australia’s youth, which was announced with much fanfare just two weeks ago, has been overlooked in last week’s budget. Instead of attracting new money, it is expected the 135,000 estimated places will be funded via a ...

Informal learning examined NCVER last week released ‘Informal learning at a glance’, which examines learning in various contexts, from the workplace to the home, and through technology and the mass media. Informal learning, by far the most prevalent form of ...

New device to fight terrorism Pioneers of the world’s first portable explosives “fingerprint” device at the University of Tasmania have received $1.6 million. The research should ultimately help apprehend terrorists responsible for bomb blasts. The team from the School of ...